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Franklin P. Adams

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Franklin P. Adams clearly understood the power of language. With equal ease, Franklin P. Adams moved between Women and Age, finding connections others missed. 14 of Franklin P. Adams's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Women, Age, Truth, Peace, and Imagination. As Franklin P. Adams put it: "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."

“Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Imagination

All Quotes by Franklin P. Adams

“Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Imagination

“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Age

“Too much truth is uncouth.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Truth

“There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Age

“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Business

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Women

“The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Women

“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Best

“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.”

— Franklin P. Adams

History

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”

— Franklin P. Adams

Experience